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Pan European Green Corridor Network

Based on the enthusiastic response to our Pyrenees to
Carpathians natural green corridor project, our Society decided to
develop the idea further into a Pan European Green Corridor Network.

We
believe that such a network can be set up for the implementation and
promotion of wilderness and wildlife preservation across the continent.

The Pan-European Green network (PEGnet) initiative aims to create a
vast unbroken ecological corridor connecting natural landscapes from the
Atlantic coast to the Black Sea and from the Arctic Circle to the
Mediterranean.

This initiative will be implemented in various phases
like connecting mountains in Portugal, the Cantabrian Mountains, the
Pyrenees and the Massif Central to the Alps, and eventually, the
Carpathians and the Balkans, along which natural ecological processes
are allowed in creating a landscape rich in biodiversity to the benefit
of nature and humanity.

Pan European Green Corridor Network

Europe is a highly fragmented continent. Vast areas of Europe’s last
great wild places have also been transformed into urban zones or cut up
by an increasingly dense transport network.

Recent statistics from the
European Environment Agency illustrate just how significant these
changes are. In a single decade around 5% of EU territory has been
covered with concrete or otherwise converted into completely artificial
surfaces including industrial areas, holiday resorts and infrastructure.

Europe’s motorways have increased in length by almost 41% (15,000 km)
within that same period and will increase by 12,000 km in the years to
come. In densely populated countries like Belgium, the average size of
contiguous land units not dissected by major transport routes has been
reduced to just 20 km² (EU average is 130 km²).

The Pan European Green Corridor Network offers a unique opportunity
to recreate natural connections and routes throughout Europe, with
wilderness areas coupled with the Natura2000 Network as resting and
mating places for the migratory animals along these corridors.

In order
to maximise the contribution of PEGnet to wilderness protection, the
project includes the following three elements:

habitat restorations based on locating gaps in the current network of protected areas

supporting a sustainable comeback of wildlife in Europe

communicating the socio-economic benefits of large scale
European-wide green corridor set up with special attention of preserving
wilderness for future generations

Based on our initial research supported by the Wildland Research Institute, PEGnet will be implemented in 4 phases:

Phase 1: connecting mountains from the Atlantic coast to the Black
Sea, which is basically our original idea to establish a mega-corridor
from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians, connecting Europe’s 3 iconic
mountains ranges

Phase 2: linking the mountain corridor to the south into the Iberian Peninsula, Apennines, Dinaric Arc and the Balkan mountains

Phase 3: linking the mountain corridor to the North: the inclusion
of the Baltic states, Fenno-Scandinavia and the European lowlands in the
large scale green corridor concept.

Phase 4: from the Carpathians to the Ural and the Caucasus. As
wilderness knows no political boundaries, we must recognise that
differences in political views shall not stop us to make our PEGnet
truly European!

This initiative is a classical win-win, because - wildlife will
benefit from more space to freely roam - human will benefit from more
ecosystem services such as flood and climate change mitigation!